Process Intensification in Microreactors to Sustainable Chemical Processes
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Green Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 206
Special Issue Editor
Interests: microreactor technology; process intensification; flow chemistry; transport phenomena and reactions in multiphase systems; design and fabrication of novel reactors; photochemical and polymerization engineering
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Process intensification technologies aiming at energy saving, consumption reduction, environmental protection, and system integration are some of the most efficient methods to solve the problems and challenges associated with the chemical industry (e.g., low conversion of material and energy, high pollution, and high safety risk). Microreactor technology is characterized by a large effective surface area-to-volume ratio, high mixing efficiency, fast heat and mass transfer rates, precise control over process parameters, etc., representing an important process intensification technology belonging to a promising frontier of the chemical engineering field. In the past thirty years, microreactor technology has developed rapidly and has been applied in various reaction processes involved in chemical engineering, organic synthesis, material synthesis, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and so on. Recently, the applications of microreactor technology have been widely extended to synthetic photochemistry, electrochemistry, sonochemistry and polymerization, which indeed demand a deeper understanding of the interfacial and transport phenomena on microscale as well as intrinsic reaction kinetics. More importantly, the industrialization of microreactor technology has attracted a lot of interest due to its obvious, multiple advantages.
As the guest editor of this Special Issue of Molecules on “Process Intensification in Microreactors to Sustainable Chemical Processes”, I welcome contributions from different research groups in various universities and institutes who are applying microreactor technology to intensify chemical processes with green and sustainable targets. Fundamental research (e.g., hydrodynamics and transport phenomena in microreactors or microchannels) particularly relevant to specific chemical processes is also welcome.
Dr. Yuanhai Su
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- process intensification
- microreactor technology
- chemical processes
- green chemistry
- sustainable chemistry
